How The Typehouse started their logo design journey

Company name

Sustainable Dunblane

Overview

Sustainable Dunblane (sustainabledunblane.org) is a Transition Town (transitiontowns.org) community group working across the local community to reduce our carbon footprint and build our resilience to Peak Oil and Climate Change.

The organisation consists of a number of sub-groups looking at issues such as transport, energy and the arts. In time this will expand to include areas such as food, wildlife, waste, health, education etc.

There will be one prize: US$295.
This contest has been pre-paid with 99designs. The winner will be paid directly by 99designs for the full prize amount, excluding any third party transfer fees.

We will give regular feedback and eliminate designs that are a definite "no".

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Community groups, individuals, businesses

Requirements

Requirements /Wants
• name in the logo, but featuring a separate design element that will stand on its own
• logo to be contemporary, fresh and simple
• suitable for a wide range of uses from print to web
• graphic element should be extractable for use as a favicon
• no templates – original artwork only
• transparent background
• colour is great, but the logo should also work well in B&W

Formats:
• Vector CMYK format (Adobe Illustrator)

Winning designer will be required to hand over the completed vector file and some bmp/gif images in various sizes.

Don't wants
Whilst energy is the primary end focus of the group, it does not depict the working groups (see above) so should not be the main subject of the logo
• domain names should not appear in the logo
• logo needs to work well in print - so no 3D effects or complicated colour gradients
• no busy/fussy designs.

Important Note:
Upon contest completion and full transfer of payment, the designer will be expected to sign a contract transferring all ownership (copyright and title) of the final design over to Sustainable Dunblane. The Logo will become the property of Sustainable Dunblane, with the designer retaining the right to display the artwork in their portfolio and advertising materials. Please do not participate if you are not prepared to comply with this standard-industry procedure.